[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-15, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> National Computing Group
> West Mifflin, PA
>
> Document, plan and execute the modernization of Fortran applications 
> running on OpenVMS systems to a virtualized Windows Server environment.
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>
> Does anyone watch for these postings and then try to convince them to
> not move away from VMS?   Or at least find out why they are moving.
>

By the time a porting effort gets to that stage, it's usually too late
as emotionally they are in a place where they have decided they need
to get rid of the old system and only the details of how that is to
be done needs to be worked out.

What is interesting however, is why now instead of, say, 5 years ago ?

Did they initially wait for VSI to complete the port to x86-64 VMS,
but now, 7.5 years later without a production-ready version of x86-64 VMS,
did they finally decide to move away from VMS ?

I wonder if anything could be done to keep other customers waiting
a little longer, or if it's simply too late and some customers have
decided to finally move from VMS ?

One problem might be that you can't emulate an Itanium system, unlike
an Alpha system, so people might be having concerns around the age of
their Itanium systems.

Simon.

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